#si

I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#adult #am #care #daughter #here

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#access #around #beyond #business #capital

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#considered #difference #friend #i #never

People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#deliver #ends #feel #frustrated #frustration

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#assured #efficiencies #existing #find #foremost

The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#administration #another #any #before #bush

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#best #come #comes #creating #creation

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#complicated #get #healthcare #issue #passed

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#believe #counts #kind #only #silence

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ↗

— Robert Jarvik

#concept #developed #fear #leaders #odds